LINKBLOG for May 23, 2008
May 23rd, 2008 by AZuidhof
Viewing Your Backlog – David Starr
What is a backlog, why is prio key, and diffent views on the backlogDeveloping Facebook Application with .NET – part 2 – Aleksisa
In case you’re into Facebook (I’m not)
‘ Reviews how using a ViewModel can abstract away the complexities of the WPF TreeView control ‘Getting started with subversion – Peter van Ooijen
What Science Fiction Can Teach Developers – Casey Charlton
Aren’t we all just a bunch of g33ks?Never Use a Web Hosting Server to Backup Data from the Hard Drive – Amit Agarwal
A clear warning: think twice (thrice) before uploading your critical data to your webhost a a backup. It’s as with all things: no such thing as the infamous free lunchWhat makes a process good? – Tim Stall
Good post on the thing that we hate, but also need
‘ As a complete package, it should make life simpler. It should solve a specific problem that the team agrees needs solving ‘Is the popularity of unit tests waning? – Andrew Binstock
Risking to start a flamewar there, but AFAIK unit tests are really taking off in the .NET world. Wondering if Andrew has had a look there…Mo Khan: My Blog! – Some More Refactorings…
…some new ideas maybe for you, based on a Martin Fowler book Mo mentions (AFAIK)9 Firefox Extensions to Protect Your Privacy – Mike Gunderloy
Does The World Really Need Yet Another Username and Password? – Jeff Atwood
‘ My experiments with OpenID were quite positive, but all is not wine and roses (…) ‘The problem(s) with consultants – Scott Berkun
‘ My passion for trying to get to the heart of things, to be clear and direct, makes it impossible for me to talk with most consultants for more than 5 minutes without wanting to punch them in the face ‘The tale of two bridges – Gojko Adzic
‘ Misunderstandings caused by wrong assumptions or supposedly self-evident knowledge are, in my opinion, among the biggest obstacles to great software ‘The Secret of Building Effective Software Systems – Andriy Solovey
‘ The Secret: Effective Software Systems are the systems that easy to understand and operate with human brains ‘
Advice on Chunking, Abstraction, Simplicity, Isolation (among many more) as the things that keep you focused to the task at handDevDays 2008 – Impressions – Jeroen Mostert
Although I’ve not been to all sessions mentioned here, this gives a good overview of what I did yesterday. Thanks to Jeroen for writing these impressions for me, so I don’t have to!Software development and Web development projects done effectively – Christopher Hawkins
for a lot of people jealousy, envy, etc is a very powerful motivator to improve, to excel, to do more ‘ Interesting thoughts on how negative emotions are often regarded as negative, but might better be seen as productivity/inspiration stimuliTheory Of Constraints And Change – Abhijit Nadgouda
‘ If a business need demands us to break or minimize effect of certain constraints, rules have to be correspondingly changed ‘
The idea of the theory is that you need to focus on constraints in your process to remain profitableMy Favorite Books – Eric Sink
Eric shares some miscellaneous books with us (from management/business to WPF)
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